Vol. 1 No. 51
Corn Crop Here
Best in Years;
Weather Helps
Prospects of a 'pumper corn
crop with yields reported up
to 150 bushels per acre are in
store for Lancaster County
During Tuesday’s tour of
Chester County, one Lancaster
County farmer told he had
shucked, some corn that mea
sured from 75 to 150 bushels
per acre. “A lot will run over
100 bushels,” County Agent
Max M. Smith advised this
morning. ~
Weather the past week has
been especially beneficial With
out rain, corn has dried well and
is safer to cnb now than it has
been m some time
Several queries have been re
ceived by Mr.-Smith relative to
pasturing clover and alfalfa fol
lowing frost. “It is safe with any
kind of cattle with good man
agement,” Mr. Smith told. Pas
ture only when dry, in the aft
ernoon, not in the morning when
dew is on oX following a shower.
Pasturing is best when it
follows feeding of hay. Frost
ed alfalfa can be dangerous,
and can cause bloat very easi
ly. Use‘of the fields now wilf
not damage next year’s crop.
“We are discouraging cutting
altalfa and clover for hay at this
late date,” Mr. Smith added. It
may injure the 1957 crop Wait
until alfalfa or clover has been
frozen or killed'by host before
cutting. Right now it’s still grow
ing
Throughout Tuesday’s tour,
Lancaster County farmers seem
ed quite pleased with this year’s
crops Tobacco cure is good
CCC Price Support
Investment Aug. 31
Almost $8 Billions
Washington, (USDA) The
U S Department of Agriculture
reported today that as 'of Aug
ust 31. 1956, the investment of
the Commodity Credit Corpor
ation in price support piogiams.
amounted to $7,829,984,000
made up of loans outstanding of
$2,463,146,000 (including $230,-
386,803 of loans financed by
lending agencies), and the cost
value of inventories, $5,366,838,-
000 As of August 31, 1955, the
investment was $7,116,855,000 of
which loans outstanding amount
ed to $1 33V 143 000' and inven
tories $5,779,712,000
Eastern States to
Open Building Jan. 1
January 1 has been set as the
prospective date for opening of
the new East°rn States Farmers
Exchange office and warehouse
at Manheim Pike and Diller
ville Road, Lancaster
The $50,000 building is of
steel and aluminun and- measur
es 22 by 50 feet with a truck
dock 40 by 60
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See—SPECIAL OFFER—Page 13
Santa Gertrudis cattle generally a
solid dull red with occasional spots of
white stand by one of the sheds on
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Feeder Calf
Sale, Southeast
Show Scheduled
Two events are coming up in
early November of special in
terest to livestock producers and
youth First is the second annual
Pennsylvania teeder calf sale
Nov. 3, next the Southeast Dis
trict 4-H Baby Beef and -Lamb
Club annual Roundup and Sale
Nov. 6,7, 8
,In the Saturday, Nov. 3 auc
tion, starting at,l p. m., a large
selection of steer and heifer
calves and yearlings will be
offered. Angus, Hereford and
Shorthorn breeds will be rep-
resented, and all entries will be
graded. Offerings will sell by
auction, individually and in
pen lots.
“This is an excellent opportun
ity to obtain club calves,” the
sponors advise Co-Sponsors are
the Pennsylvania Livestock and
Allied Associations, Inc, the
Lancastei Union Stock Yards
Co . and the Lancaster Live Stock
Exchange.
Ten southeastern Pennsylvania
counties Adams, Berks, Ches
ter, Cumbeiland, Dauphin, Lan
caster, Lebanon, Northampton,
Perry and York will be rep
i esented in the Southeast Round-
Up and Sale Judging will start
Wednesday morning and con
tinue through Thursday morn
ing, Nov 6 and 7, with 300 steers
and 20 pens of fat lambs going
on sale at 1 p m Thursday, Nov.
8. Abiam W Diffenbach will be
auctioneer in the event conduct
ed by the Lancaster Live Stock
Exchange
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa,, Friday, Oct. 19, 1956
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Santa Gertmdis in Feed Lot
'FA Land Judging
Contest Saturday
Lancaster County Future
Farmers of America will com
pete in the first annual county
Land Judging Contest on the
Andrew Hackman farm R 2
Manheim, Saturday
A plaque will be awarded the
winner, and the chapter placing
first will be eligible to enter its
representative in the in er
county meet in York County
later <
Honey Crop in
State Lowest
For 32 Years
Harrisburg—Cool weathei and
excessive _ rainfall this season
pi evented Pennsylvania honey
bees from gathering their usual
amount of nectar and the honey
crop is the lowest in 32 years,
according to preliminary esti
males announced today by the
State Department of Agriculture.
Honey __ production for the
past season is set at 2,940,000
lbs, 40 per cent below the
1955 output of 4,884,000 lbs, a
Sept. 15 survey of Pennsyl
vania beekeepers revealed.
This year’s crop came from
147,000 colonies, 1,000 fewer
than last vear.
In mid-September beekeepers
wera hopeful for a noimal fall
and a builcT-up of surplus honey
from fall neotar pioducxng
plants. However, frost on Sept.
21, together with low tempeia
tures, abruptly ended the fall
nectar flow
Many beekeepers reported
stocks in the hives insufficient to
provide food during the winter
and as a result feeding of the
colonies would be required.
Honey yields per hive this
year, as reported in mid-Sep
tember, averaged 20 lbs com
pared with 33 lbs in 1955.
Buck and Doe Run Valley Farms of King
Ranch near Coatesville (Lancaster Farm
ing Staff Photo)
Game Bink Set
Free in State
Total 264,000
Harrisburg Abotu 264,000
game birds were liberated in
Pennsylvania by the Game Com
mission this year or will be
stocked m appropriate areas be
fore the end of the 1956 small
game season Following are de
tails of these releases as pro
vided by the agency’s Propaga
tion Division
Ring - necked Pheasants Ap
proximately 52,000 pheasants,
about evenly cocks and hens,
were turned loose this spring
Over 17,000 of these birds, in the
latio of 1 male to 10 females,
were released last June During
-the cunent month 22,000 cocks
and 9,000 hens will be liberated
During November, m-season re
leases of 12,000 cock pheasants
will be made Final figures on
the pheasant chick program have
not been tabulated, but on the
basis of the number supplied to
qualified farmeis and the per
centage of rearing success last
year it is anticipated approxi
mately 130,000 of these birds
will be liberated prior to and
during the 1956 .season The ra
tio will be about 50-50, cocks to
hens
ißobwhite Quail 6,000 quail
were liberated on agricultural
land in the Commonwealth this
spring. The sex ratio was half
males and half females. In the
summer 250 pairs of breeders
were set free on farms. About
2,500 of these desirable litt'e
birds weie released this fall.
E OTARI ANS VISIT SPABC
Thirty-eight members of the
Lancaster Northeast Rotary
Club and ten guests toured the
Pennsylvania Artxfical Breed
ing Cooperative Monday even
ing.
$2 Per Year
325 Make Cattle
Tour; King Ranch
Of Top Interest
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Three hundred and twenty
five Lancaster County farmers
Tuesday toured Chester County
areas that represented vanoujs
phases of farming and industry
in a 135-mile trip by six buses
and 16 private automobiles
Included in the 325 were not
only cattle feeders, but poul
try and dairy men as well,
making- the first trip of its kind
from the Garden Spot. Visited
were the Ford Assembly plant
and the Medford Packing Co.
at Chester, the Medford Farms
at West Grove, and Buck and
Doe Run Valley Farms near
Coatesville, _a unit of the far
flung King Ranch of Texas,
Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
On the Buck and Doe Run Val
ley Farms the visitors saw 5,230
head of Santa Gertrudis cattle
on 10,000 acres of grass, a ranch
western in size by dimensions,
seven by nine miles Burnett
Wilson, manager of the Chester
County division of King Ranch,
operations that include
a pelleting mill that turns out 16
tons of feed daily for the dull
red Brahma-Shorthorn crosses.
The story of Buck and Doe
Run Valley Farms dates back
many years, when it was origi
nally a part of the DuPont es
tate in the vicinity of Kennett
Square In 1947, when dry
weather in Texas necessitated
expansion to more favorable cli
mate, the Klebergs acquired the
DuPont farm and since that time
have doubled the acreage
Stake and ndei fences miles
and miles long sunound the
clean, green pastures, now fram
ed in autumn foliage Cowboys
in leather chaps and sombreros
held cattle on the same lands
that the red coats of fox hunters
are seen when the hunt is on.
Sparkling streams and in
numerable ponds serve each
pasture where the Santa Ger
trudis are fed on grass. Small
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King Ranch Manager
BURNETT H. WILSON, who
has acquired the nickname
Tommy for many years, tells
visiting Lancaster County feed
ers of operations on the 10,-
000-acre Buck and Doe Run
Valley Farms of King Ranch
near Coatesville. (Lancaster
Farming Staff Photo).